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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Target Dean By Peter Hart If you accept the "horserace" metaphor beloved by campaign pundits, it seems like media looked to disqualify former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean even before he left the starting gate. Once thought to be a long-shot contender for the Democratic nomination, Dean found himself anointed as the media front-runner weeks before any voters had their say. With that status came intense media scrutiny, much of it focused on Dean's perceived weaknesses. "Doubts About Dean: Behind the Democrats' Battle to Stop Him," declared the January 12 cover of Newsweek. The same week's Time probed the rise of a candidate who "barked and blustered," originally thought to be "little more than entertainment value" to party insiders and the press corps. "Is the country willing to elect a Brahmin who grew up in East Hampton, N.Y., and on Park Avenue, who brings virtually no national-security experience to a post-9/11 nation and who governed a state that gives homosexuals all the rights that go with marriage?" the magazine asked. Early reservations about Dean's candidacy were often framed as an ideological problem ("The Left's Mr. Right?" asked an August 11 Newsweek headline). Media impatience about the "cluttered" Democratic race relegated Dean to the margins, presumably on ideological grounds. Before a debate early in the campaign, NPR's Cokie Roberts lamented (4/28/03) that "some of the strongest voices are likely to come from Al Sharpton, Howard Dean, people who are not necessarily in the mainstream of the American voting public." To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1176 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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